A lone car travels south on the I-5 after the interstate was shut down because of the fire that has ravaged Sylmar overnight and into the day. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Directions

Traffic officer Ben Morales advises Carl Smith on avoiding freeway closures on his trip north to Sacramento. The Sylmar fire closed the 5 and 210 freeways as well as the northbound 405 north of the 118. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

Devastation

The greatest damage in the Valley was reported in the Oakridge Mobile Home Park near Sylmar, where more than 500 homes were destroyed in the so-called Sayre blaze that started late Friday. Police sealed off the community and declared it a potential crime scene. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Marion and Austin Thornton embrace as they look at their home. The fire stopped next door and their home only suffered smoke damage. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Sylmar fire

Sylmar‘s Oakridge mobile homes were devastated by fire. A coroner’s official said at a press conference Sunday morning that a search for bodies would continue but it is precautionary. He noted that no victims were found Saturday. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Sayre fire - Sifting through remains

Residents sift through rubble. The 11,213-acre Sayre fire was 70% contained. In all, 842 homes have been destroyed in multiple fires throughout Southern California in the last several days, and more than 100 more damaged. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Adries Rios, left, comforts his mother, Mary Rios, who lost her home in the fire at Sylmar’s Oakridge Mobile Home Park. At right is her grandaughter Jacqueline Rios, 9. It is the third time that Mary Rios and her husband have lost their home. They also were displaced in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Residents wait

Roland Conder, foreground, who lives at Sylmar’s Oakridge Mobile Home Park, is among the residents waiting outside the park entrance to hear about the fate of their homes. Conder says he learned that his home was spared and hoped to get into it to retrieve some keys he needed. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Joan Kezios

A distraught Joan Kezios, 78, waits to hear about the fate of her home at Sylmar’s Oakridge Mobile Home Park. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Kazaam

A search dog named Kazaam takes a break while going through the rubble at Sylmar’s Oakridge Mobile Home Park, where authorities are looking for possible victims of the wildfire that destroyed more than 500 homes there. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Sylmar fire - At Oakridge

Search and rescue teams from the Los Angeles Fire Department, county Sheriff’s Department and coroner’s office sift through rubble at Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar. Police shuttled residents into the community to retrieve belongings and view the devastation. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Sayre fire - Nothing left

Faith Schwartz, left, weeps at the loss of her home. She plans to move to Burbank. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Carl Cortez of Lake Arrowhead looks over the wall enclosing Oakridge Mobile Home Park on Monday morning. His mother’s and his sister’s mobile homes were destroyed when fire swept through the Sylmar mobile home park. Cortez said, “The fire must have been unbelievably hot to melt steel like it did.” (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)